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Speaker 1: Thanks the chronic goals.

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Speaker 2: This is not your average shows.

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Speaker 1: You're now tuned into the rail.

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Speaker 3: Welcome to the gainst the Chronicles podcast, the production of

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Speaker 4: Comment right delicious while whooping in that kitchen, I got.

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Speaker 2: A I got got it round for your ass.

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Speaker 3: I heard that, man. I guess y'all can hear that?

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Speaker 3: That voice in the background, Man, that's the homegirl, Yo yo.

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Speaker 3: We go start to show off a little bit different today, age,

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Speaker 3: because I'm tired of doing all the the same thing.

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Speaker 1: Man. You know, this is our eighth year, dough. I

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Speaker 1: don't know shit. I just get on is our the

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Speaker 1: day is our eighth year. Man.

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Speaker 3: And with that being said, we got a special guest

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Speaker 3: man in the house, man, and not one hip hop legend.

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Speaker 3: People always call people legends. I'm tiring people getting called

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Speaker 3: legends who haven't done nothing to deserve that title. But

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Speaker 3: we got a true legend here today. And she's also

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Speaker 3: the host of Aspired TVs down right delicious with yo Yo.

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Speaker 3: We got the Queen of the West Coast in the house.

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Speaker 3: Yo Yo.

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Speaker 1: What's havne? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, yeah, go ahead?

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Speaker 2: What's up? Family? Lest god lest No?

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Speaker 1: What's good? But you so yoyo?

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Speaker 3: I gotta ask you first and foremost. When I saw

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Speaker 3: you had the cook and go, I said, yo, yo

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Speaker 3: can cook?

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Speaker 2: So did you bring to get Jesse? Yes?

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Speaker 4: I can't believe I haven't made ach no food. I

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Speaker 4: meant my cooking. I've been cooking on the road.

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Speaker 5: No.

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Speaker 4: Eight. You gotta get some of that.

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 2: I'm good at Domino's. I'm good at cooking.

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Speaker 4: I'm good as spage, I'm good a mothering. I'm good

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Speaker 4: and whatever. I'm good at everything I do. Everything I

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Speaker 4: touch from.

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Speaker 3: Now on won't be That's right. I heard the hell

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Speaker 3: out of that man. And you talk about you can

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Speaker 3: play dominos, you can slept bones, you know a slapt bone,

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Speaker 3: you know how to play stage.

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Speaker 2: Who your ass?

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Speaker 5: That's another good p I would love to. That's another

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Speaker 5: good I would love to. That's another good point you made.

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Speaker 5: You're good at mothering because you know I always see

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Speaker 5: you with the kids. You interact with your kids, a lot,

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Speaker 5: you know, especially with your daughters. You always ticktocking or

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Speaker 5: dance stepping or something involved with the kids. So that's

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Speaker 5: a that's another good point, you know what I'm saying

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Speaker 5: now that not everybody is good at mother ring.

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Speaker 1: You feel me, you give me.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, And I can take are you Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I take part in that.

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Speaker 4: My kids have helped me become the woman that I

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Speaker 4: am today. They keep me young, They keep me with

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Speaker 4: this influence, game up on game, you know, and and and.

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Speaker 2: I finally got to the point where they know who

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Speaker 4: They respect what I've done in the music industry, what

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Speaker 4: I what I do in our life, and that makes

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Speaker 4: me my pursuit towards my future goals.

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Speaker 2: Better for my better for me.

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Speaker 5: You like, when they get to the point where they

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Speaker 5: where they respect who you were in your past life, you.

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Speaker 1: Know, all the contributions you've done. You know. I had

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Speaker 1: to go through that with my son. You know.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, he didn't understand, you know, acknowledgement people would give

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Speaker 5: you or you know, when people would, you know, praise

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Speaker 5: you for what you've done.

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Speaker 1: He thought that was very weird for a while growing up.

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Speaker 5: But now you see him, he got he got me

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Speaker 5: posted on his page, and I'm his picture, and you know,

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Speaker 5: he sends me stuff.

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Speaker 1: He collects records now and so he's sending me records.

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Speaker 5: Our dad. Look what I bought at the store today,

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Speaker 5: you know, So he loves it. You know, it's a

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that is a blessing. And I want to command

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Speaker 4: I like the work that you do with with your

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Speaker 4: family as well. You know, it's not easy trying to

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Speaker 4: do it all is still pivot in our lives since

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Speaker 4: we've been doing it since.

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Speaker 2: We were young. I call us young industry babies.

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Speaker 4: Oh definitely, and people don't you know, we don't really

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Speaker 2: We were just kids.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, definitely. It was.

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Speaker 5: It was hard in the beginning because like you said,

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Speaker 5: we was kid, yeah, zelf and you know myself, I

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Speaker 5: it was in the city, you know, around eighteen eighteen,

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Speaker 5: be a parent in those times, in those days for us,

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Speaker 5: and not just because of the streets, but because of

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Speaker 5: we were trying to get our careers cracking, you know,

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Speaker 5: and in the days you were that's right. And in

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Speaker 5: days we was on the road like constantly, you know,

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Speaker 5: doing shit. Yeah, I I'm glad for the maturity though

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Speaker 5: today you know that we're able to we're able to

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Speaker 5: what we had to go through, the struggles and just

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Speaker 5: being able to be you know, the person that we

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Speaker 2: Yeah, get us where we are, That's right, Yoyo.

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Speaker 3: With that, With all that being said, right now you're

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Speaker 3: a mother, You're doing different things.

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Speaker 1: You know, you being a former.

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Speaker 3: Hip hop artist, did you have a hard time at

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Speaker 3: first of people being able to see who you actually

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Speaker 3: are right now? Did you have a problem with people

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Speaker 3: trying to keep you pigeonholed in the past.

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Speaker 2: You know, I don't think it was people. It was me.

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Speaker 2: Just it was.

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Speaker 4: Me in my recreating stages, in my transitioning state.

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Speaker 2: I'd like to say.

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Speaker 4: I'd always go back to what I was comfortable in,

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Speaker 4: but the times had changed so drastically. I mean, it

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Speaker 4: was out with Yoyo's Little Kim, it was Foxy Brown

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Speaker 4: and here I was the intelligent black women and they

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Speaker 4: was talking about Coca Cola bottles and all of this,

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Speaker 4: and at the same time, me trying to trying to

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Speaker 4: get the industry to respect my dope femininity because you know,

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Speaker 4: I'm from the West Coast. West Coast had a certain style.

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Speaker 4: Ice Cube had a certain vision that he wanted for

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Speaker 4: the lynch mob and street knowledge, and I was a

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Speaker 4: so many women where there were many, not too many,

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Speaker 4: but women who liked men, and I mean like men,

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Speaker 4: and there were women who liked women, and the way

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Speaker 4: I was dressed they didn't know, you know. So I

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Speaker 4: was my focus was I'm a woman. I need to

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Speaker 4: let people know I'm a woman. No disrespect to anybody

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Speaker 4: out there, but that was part.

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Speaker 4: I was part of I want people to know I'm

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Speaker 4: a woman in hip hop. And I'll still murder your

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Speaker 4: ass on the track, I'll still battle you in the streets.

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 4: I still think I'm the dopest you know what I mean.

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Speaker 4: I was competitive still is to this.

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Speaker 1: That's dope.

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Speaker 3: And the one thing I will say about you is

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Speaker 3: that we did have the little Kims and the Foxy Browns.

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Speaker 3: You always had you Hamburgs, yourself like a queen. You

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Speaker 3: always had the utmost respect for yourself. You represent it,

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Speaker 3: and I think that our young women needed to see

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Speaker 3: more images like that, because you know, these rappers are influential.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and we didn't know that before.

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Speaker 4: I don't know about you eight, but they would say

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Speaker 4: do you consider yourself a role model? On me, I

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Speaker 4: was just following along ice Tube and then they were already,

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Speaker 4: you know, public hiding me. I was listening to what

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Speaker 4: they said what we don't. But when I got out there,

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Speaker 2: A role model.

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Speaker 4: You know, people are reciting. But it was new for me.

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Speaker 4: So I had to learn that I had a responsibility.

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Speaker 4: Even though I had a responsibility before, I really had

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Speaker 4: one because I'm like dad, we can do so much.

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Speaker 4: And I already had the intelligent black woman mind concept

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Speaker 4: more so like, wow, we really are so instantly hot.

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Speaker 4: Long three years, four years in the game or my

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Speaker 4: second third album, I was ready to change. I was

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Speaker 4: ready to give some more, you know, which was outside

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Speaker 2: But yeah, I mean I think you know, you don't

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Speaker 4: I think my longevity came because I didn't really sell

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Speaker 4: my soul. I can go in any room and those

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Speaker 4: women care too. Now, I mean, it don't matter what

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Speaker 4: you do, women are still making moves. You know, what

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Speaker 4: So people are still getting in it and learning for

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Speaker 4: themselves that the kids are watching. You know, we are

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Speaker 4: role models hip hop artists women. You know, no matter

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Speaker 4: what gave you in them, kids are looking.

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Speaker 2: Up to you.

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Speaker 4: So and our community needed the most, and we hold

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Speaker 4: on our black superstars.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, without a doubt. Let me ask you this today,

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Speaker 3: it's real loft hook. You got a lot of raction.

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Speaker 3: You got a lot of real ractionet music out here.

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Speaker 3: Like what's the one girl we always laugh about eight?

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Speaker 3: I can't remember her name? It's so mean, So you know,

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Speaker 3: we try to not get so mean. But what's the

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Speaker 3: one girl that to talk about you need a cootie

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Speaker 3: and scratchs and all that stuff. What's the girl's name?

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Speaker 1: Uh?

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Speaker 4: You know it's you know, sometimes I hear that stuff,

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Speaker 4: I hear lyrics and you know, I just shake my

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Speaker 4: head because you know that's just entertainment. That's not hip hopping.

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Speaker 4: You know, they fit in a different category. And sometimes

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Speaker 4: I think it's just a mockery. I mean, some people

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Speaker 4: are comedians becoming artists, and you know some people are

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Speaker 4: just ratchet and making a lifestyle. And because people are

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Speaker 4: creating so many artists that never had the passion ever

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Speaker 4: in their life, but they have looks, they got the

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Speaker 4: ass they you know what I mean, it's just something

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Speaker 4: about them that makes somebody want to put them up

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Speaker 4: on a highlight them and then they put the music

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Speaker 4: behind them. They got somebody wiping their wives. They never

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Speaker 4: wrote before, they never performed before.

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Speaker 2: So you get you getting a lot of that. You know,

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Speaker 2: you're getting a lot.

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Speaker 4: Of strippers that's just becoming rappers because they got a

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Speaker 3: Big facts. That's what I was gonna say. Your name

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Speaker 3: is Sexy Read, and that's what I was gonna say.

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Speaker 3: Most of these records come from a man's perspective. You

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Speaker 3: could tell us a man back there writing and telling

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Speaker 1: That's really dope.

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Speaker 3: Man.

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Speaker 1: You was able to rise to.

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Speaker 2: This cage ready.

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Speaker 4: I was ready what he say, if you stay right.

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Speaker 1: You know what, Yes, ma'am.

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Speaker 2: You know I had been.

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Speaker 1: Amen.

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Speaker 3: You know what you just say is something real pivotal.

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Speaker 4: And so that means I had to get Yo Yo

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Speaker 4: I got myself through Rochelle, my Disney show from Saturdays.

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Speaker 4: So when I was able to handle my own business,

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Speaker 2: You know.

443
00:20:44,480 --> 00:20:46,920
Speaker 4: People started wanting to help me, wanting to come into

444
00:20:46,960 --> 00:20:49,439
Speaker 4: my life because I was keeping everybody else out, you know.

445
00:20:49,560 --> 00:20:51,000
Speaker 4: And you don't have to go through my sister to

446
00:20:51,040 --> 00:20:52,800
Speaker 4: get to me. You don't have to go through my

447
00:20:52,920 --> 00:20:55,520
Speaker 4: business manager. My business manager worked for me, but before

448
00:20:55,600 --> 00:20:58,160
Speaker 4: we were trained at a young age that everybody had

449
00:20:58,200 --> 00:20:58,440
Speaker 4: to go.

450
00:20:58,440 --> 00:21:00,760
Speaker 2: Through somebody to reach the artists. So I have to

451
00:21:00,800 --> 00:21:02,720
Speaker 2: break that, break that chain.

452
00:21:05,560 --> 00:21:07,960
Speaker 3: Without a doubt, because I'm gonna tell you right now,

453
00:21:08,000 --> 00:21:10,040
Speaker 3: that's the biggest problem right now me A. You talk

454
00:21:10,080 --> 00:21:13,440
Speaker 3: about it a lot when you have people in the

455
00:21:13,520 --> 00:21:15,720
Speaker 3: seating on your behalf of business. A lot of times

456
00:21:15,760 --> 00:21:18,760
Speaker 3: those people are not good people and they taking advantage

457
00:21:18,800 --> 00:21:21,000
Speaker 3: the whole time. So I've known, I got plenty of

458
00:21:21,040 --> 00:21:25,119
Speaker 3: homeboys who don't have fifteen, sixteen, twenty year careers and

459
00:21:25,119 --> 00:21:26,600
Speaker 3: they look up one day and be like, man, I

460
00:21:26,600 --> 00:21:29,200
Speaker 3: don't have no money, but I've made all this money,

461
00:21:29,240 --> 00:21:31,680
Speaker 3: and somebody else to send their kids to college off

462
00:21:31,720 --> 00:21:34,720
Speaker 3: your earnings. And it's just it's just a theme that's

463
00:21:34,760 --> 00:21:37,359
Speaker 3: all too common. So I encourage everybody man handling some

464
00:21:37,400 --> 00:21:39,520
Speaker 3: of your own business. Ain't nothing wrong with having to manage.

465
00:21:39,320 --> 00:21:39,760
Speaker 1: For a team.

466
00:21:39,840 --> 00:21:40,840
Speaker 2: That's right, that's right.

467
00:21:40,960 --> 00:21:43,000
Speaker 1: To mix everything. Make sure you want to mix, make

468
00:21:43,040 --> 00:21:45,040
Speaker 1: sure you're involved. That's right, that's right.

469
00:21:45,440 --> 00:21:46,680
Speaker 2: That's right. You can't hand it.

470
00:21:46,800 --> 00:21:49,280
Speaker 4: You can't hand your baby to anybody. You know, you

471
00:21:49,320 --> 00:21:52,560
Speaker 4: are treated like it's an infant, a real infant. You

472
00:21:52,600 --> 00:21:54,879
Speaker 4: can't hand your baby to anybody. You ain't gonna let

473
00:21:54,960 --> 00:21:58,560
Speaker 4: just anybody babysit your baby. Anybody handle your baby, you know,

474
00:21:58,680 --> 00:22:00,800
Speaker 4: take I'll take her to the door, I'll take them

475
00:22:00,840 --> 00:22:03,600
Speaker 4: to the doctor. You know, you got to step in.

476
00:22:03,840 --> 00:22:05,439
Speaker 4: You got to step in your own business. And I

477
00:22:05,560 --> 00:22:08,639
Speaker 4: learned that and that has been such a successful tool

478
00:22:08,880 --> 00:22:11,920
Speaker 4: in my career because people get to know me, not

479
00:22:12,160 --> 00:22:14,600
Speaker 4: yo yo, you know people you know, before I used

480
00:22:14,640 --> 00:22:16,920
Speaker 4: to get whenever I meet somebody, they say, oh, you

481
00:22:16,960 --> 00:22:19,200
Speaker 4: don't have a gat in your purse. But now since

482
00:22:19,240 --> 00:22:21,400
Speaker 4: I've allowed the world to see me as you're line

483
00:22:21,440 --> 00:22:24,520
Speaker 4: the Whittaker. You know, now, doctor you're lined with Whittaker.

484
00:22:24,560 --> 00:22:27,359
Speaker 4: The world know, you know, they know who I am.

485
00:22:27,600 --> 00:22:30,720
Speaker 4: You know, my respect has changed. Although they respect where

486
00:22:30,760 --> 00:22:32,960
Speaker 4: I came from, they respect my hip hop journey and

487
00:22:33,000 --> 00:22:35,800
Speaker 4: where and who put me on and all the things

488
00:22:35,800 --> 00:22:37,919
Speaker 4: that I've done. But now they know me as a human.

489
00:22:38,280 --> 00:22:40,639
Speaker 4: And then, you know, radio help with that too. Me

490
00:22:40,720 --> 00:22:43,719
Speaker 4: being on the radio here in Los Angeles allow people

491
00:22:43,880 --> 00:22:45,520
Speaker 4: to get to know me. And that was through my

492
00:22:45,640 --> 00:22:48,840
Speaker 4: journey of showing up for myself, making them phone calls,

493
00:22:48,960 --> 00:22:52,080
Speaker 4: not being afraid to reach out to people. Hey this yo, yo,

494
00:22:52,119 --> 00:22:56,480
Speaker 4: what's up? You know yo yo the bat. But yeah,

495
00:22:57,400 --> 00:22:59,040
Speaker 4: you know, and that was both for me. That was

496
00:22:59,080 --> 00:23:01,320
Speaker 4: both for me because you know, I wanted to fit

497
00:23:01,400 --> 00:23:04,960
Speaker 4: this certain stereotype that wasn't successful for my career.

498
00:23:05,920 --> 00:23:09,080
Speaker 3: But they need not get it twisted because doctor Eulonda

499
00:23:09,080 --> 00:23:11,080
Speaker 3: Whicker still got to get in her person. Don't get

500
00:23:11,080 --> 00:23:11,440
Speaker 3: a twist.

501
00:23:12,600 --> 00:23:15,760
Speaker 4: That's right, that's right, that's right. I'm trying trying to

502
00:23:15,760 --> 00:23:22,439
Speaker 4: get him. I'm trying to get a permit to carry.

503
00:23:23,119 --> 00:23:25,600
Speaker 1: He's still so don't never get a twisted because trying

504
00:23:25,600 --> 00:23:26,560
Speaker 1: to get a permit.

505
00:23:26,320 --> 00:23:29,400
Speaker 4: To carry baby in South Carolina, wor me or my

506
00:23:29,400 --> 00:23:32,280
Speaker 4: my fiance left, he carried he opened.

507
00:23:32,280 --> 00:23:33,520
Speaker 2: That's an open carry state.

508
00:23:34,320 --> 00:23:36,160
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, you know what, the South.

509
00:23:36,480 --> 00:23:38,919
Speaker 3: I'm about to move down to Texas and oh how

510
00:23:38,960 --> 00:23:41,560
Speaker 3: long's that second memories? I'm moving down there and I

511
00:23:41,560 --> 00:23:42,040
Speaker 3: can't wait.

512
00:23:42,080 --> 00:23:45,720
Speaker 5: How's the transition from from from leaving you know, your

513
00:23:45,880 --> 00:23:50,320
Speaker 5: your your foundation and your roots and going to relocate.

514
00:23:50,640 --> 00:23:51,679
Speaker 1: Was that easy for you?

515
00:23:54,240 --> 00:23:57,960
Speaker 4: Well, I'm by coach Storm in California. Now I'm an

516
00:23:57,960 --> 00:24:00,359
Speaker 4: empty nester at home. My twenty two year old just

517
00:24:00,359 --> 00:24:03,640
Speaker 4: got her first apartment. My thirty year old is in

518
00:24:03,680 --> 00:24:06,199
Speaker 4: her own place, been in her own place. She's married

519
00:24:06,240 --> 00:24:10,520
Speaker 4: with kid, and so I think it's beautiful. I love

520
00:24:10,840 --> 00:24:14,960
Speaker 4: Myrtle Beach. It's a beautiful place. It's my getaway. But

521
00:24:15,040 --> 00:24:17,800
Speaker 4: I love California. I mean, California is the only place

522
00:24:17,800 --> 00:24:19,679
Speaker 4: I'm gonna get my discounts. It's the only place I'm

523
00:24:19,680 --> 00:24:21,679
Speaker 4: gonna go to and call a man to do some

524
00:24:21,800 --> 00:24:23,080
Speaker 4: extra stuff for me, like.

525
00:24:23,280 --> 00:24:25,760
Speaker 2: You know, call you know, call so and something down.

526
00:24:25,600 --> 00:24:28,760
Speaker 5: Over there and over here and other than that.

527
00:24:29,280 --> 00:24:32,639
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's like so South Carolina. Myrtle Beach is really

528
00:24:32,720 --> 00:24:35,679
Speaker 4: like a my retirement place. The home is beautiful. I

529
00:24:35,680 --> 00:24:37,320
Speaker 4: feel like I don't have to do anything. I have

530
00:24:37,359 --> 00:24:39,919
Speaker 4: a team player on my team, a man that's not

531
00:24:40,119 --> 00:24:43,040
Speaker 4: competing with me, but want to see me win and

532
00:24:43,400 --> 00:24:45,240
Speaker 4: want to you know, want to see me shine and

533
00:24:45,280 --> 00:24:48,400
Speaker 4: live up to my full potential. Don't get in my way,

534
00:24:48,440 --> 00:24:51,640
Speaker 4: which is beautiful. And my kids, like I said, they

535
00:24:51,680 --> 00:24:53,920
Speaker 4: know they mother got they back. They want to see

536
00:24:53,920 --> 00:24:55,440
Speaker 4: me happy, They want to see me win.

537
00:24:55,840 --> 00:24:56,320
Speaker 2: They in the.

538
00:24:56,320 --> 00:24:58,840
Speaker 4: Kitchen cooking their own camera and before there was a

539
00:24:58,840 --> 00:25:00,840
Speaker 4: time they would even let me put them on social media.

540
00:25:01,440 --> 00:25:05,160
Speaker 4: So it's just it's just everybody's happy. I like I said,

541
00:25:05,200 --> 00:25:07,840
Speaker 4: my mother who has been holding me down since I

542
00:25:07,920 --> 00:25:10,240
Speaker 4: was in junior high and high school, and all my

543
00:25:10,359 --> 00:25:13,040
Speaker 4: talent shows she's able to come in the kitchen. And

544
00:25:13,080 --> 00:25:15,639
Speaker 4: I really felt like I left my mother out, you know,

545
00:25:15,720 --> 00:25:18,280
Speaker 4: of my journey because I was moving so much. But

546
00:25:18,359 --> 00:25:20,080
Speaker 4: to have her in the kitchen, you know that I

547
00:25:20,119 --> 00:25:22,240
Speaker 4: told you she against in the kitchen, you know that

548
00:25:22,320 --> 00:25:26,080
Speaker 4: to downright delicious with Mama, Mia, Oh we sure.

549
00:25:25,800 --> 00:25:26,960
Speaker 1: We always we all.

550
00:25:28,400 --> 00:25:32,000
Speaker 5: You know, I've known you for such a long time

551
00:25:32,560 --> 00:25:37,080
Speaker 5: and so Paula, Yes, it's just indeed, so you always

552
00:25:37,080 --> 00:25:40,240
Speaker 5: got mom. Moms is always there in support. So that's

553
00:25:40,320 --> 00:25:42,960
Speaker 5: one hell of a thing, you know, because this was

554
00:25:43,000 --> 00:25:43,600
Speaker 5: a this.

555
00:25:43,480 --> 00:25:45,400
Speaker 2: Is a yeah, this is a rough journey.

556
00:25:45,880 --> 00:25:47,040
Speaker 1: This is a rough journey.

557
00:25:47,200 --> 00:25:50,160
Speaker 5: You get me and uh, you know in the beginning,

558
00:25:50,320 --> 00:25:53,960
Speaker 5: you know, parents might have not been as confident in

559
00:25:53,960 --> 00:25:57,199
Speaker 5: this hip hop thing that we were venturing into. But

560
00:25:57,760 --> 00:26:00,440
Speaker 5: I can say that your moms is always has been

561
00:26:00,520 --> 00:26:04,359
Speaker 5: someone who was supported your career and whatever it is

562
00:26:04,400 --> 00:26:07,600
Speaker 5: in the travel what you do. Yeah, I mean, I'll

563
00:26:07,640 --> 00:26:10,120
Speaker 5: see you when you have your little parties and your

564
00:26:10,119 --> 00:26:14,800
Speaker 5: girlfriends come through and y'all be hanging. Moms is always there,

565
00:26:14,920 --> 00:26:18,960
Speaker 5: whether you at shows or or functions and shiit, y'all

566
00:26:19,000 --> 00:26:21,280
Speaker 5: be getting down, like mam, I got to go get

567
00:26:21,280 --> 00:26:23,080
Speaker 5: me a plate one day from yo yo.

568
00:26:24,119 --> 00:26:27,240
Speaker 2: No, look, you definitely have to come over.

569
00:26:27,320 --> 00:26:27,480
Speaker 1: Wait.

570
00:26:27,560 --> 00:26:29,760
Speaker 2: And my daughter, Tiffany, she told me.

571
00:26:32,280 --> 00:26:35,080
Speaker 4: She told me, she said, Mom, she said, when you

572
00:26:35,119 --> 00:26:38,040
Speaker 4: get home with eight, can you can you tell him? Oh,

573
00:26:38,119 --> 00:26:42,920
Speaker 4: can you say, ain't no bitches in here?

574
00:26:42,760 --> 00:26:45,399
Speaker 2: He said? And then you gotta tell him, And then

575
00:26:45,440 --> 00:26:46,320
Speaker 2: you gotta tell him.

576
00:26:46,400 --> 00:26:49,200
Speaker 4: You gotta tell them, And he said, ain't no, I'll

577
00:26:49,200 --> 00:26:51,240
Speaker 4: break or last, she said, when you she said, but

578
00:26:51,320 --> 00:26:53,760
Speaker 4: only when you pay attention to eight and you're not

579
00:26:53,880 --> 00:26:56,960
Speaker 4: watching a party, can you hear him say? Well?

580
00:26:57,000 --> 00:27:00,680
Speaker 2: Break? Then I'll say.

581
00:27:00,640 --> 00:27:01,600
Speaker 4: I'll break on your hat.

582
00:27:01,720 --> 00:27:04,560
Speaker 2: I said, well, break thing, so she said, make sure

583
00:27:04,600 --> 00:27:05,119
Speaker 2: you tell.

584
00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:07,119
Speaker 4: Them that for me, and I just love that my

585
00:27:07,200 --> 00:27:10,760
Speaker 4: oldest daughter, she is my oldest daughter. Tiffany was so

586
00:27:10,800 --> 00:27:14,040
Speaker 4: excited to know that you and I were doing this interview,

587
00:27:14,080 --> 00:27:16,800
Speaker 4: and she was so happy. And I was so happy

588
00:27:16,800 --> 00:27:19,560
Speaker 4: to do this interview because I've been really wanting to

589
00:27:19,600 --> 00:27:22,919
Speaker 4: bet with my brothers in hip hop. I know, I

590
00:27:22,960 --> 00:27:25,080
Speaker 4: go a lot of places and I do a lot

591
00:27:25,119 --> 00:27:28,000
Speaker 4: of things. But to have you support the cooking show,

592
00:27:28,400 --> 00:27:30,760
Speaker 4: to have me on your show, to talk about downright

593
00:27:30,840 --> 00:27:33,800
Speaker 4: delicious with yo yo, really really honest to God, to

594
00:27:33,840 --> 00:27:36,560
Speaker 4: bring tears to my eyes, touch my heart because you know,

595
00:27:36,600 --> 00:27:38,000
Speaker 4: I love my brothers in hip hop.

596
00:27:38,080 --> 00:27:39,120
Speaker 2: Oh God, here I go.

597
00:27:39,400 --> 00:27:41,399
Speaker 4: I love my brothers in hip hop, and sometimes I

598
00:27:41,520 --> 00:27:42,600
Speaker 4: be wanting that support.

599
00:27:42,840 --> 00:27:43,520
Speaker 2: I want you to.

600
00:27:43,440 --> 00:27:45,520
Speaker 4: Come over and eat. I want you to take my cooking,

601
00:27:45,840 --> 00:27:48,679
Speaker 4: you know, because I love my brothers. You're literally like

602
00:27:48,760 --> 00:27:51,720
Speaker 4: my brother in hip hop because we did grow up together.

603
00:27:52,119 --> 00:27:53,440
Speaker 2: So it just warns my heart.

604
00:27:53,480 --> 00:27:56,879
Speaker 4: To have that support and that love and to welcome

605
00:27:56,920 --> 00:28:00,639
Speaker 4: me on your platform, you know, really feels good to me.

606
00:28:00,680 --> 00:28:03,119
Speaker 4: I know I'm all emotional because you know, like I said,

607
00:28:03,160 --> 00:28:06,240
Speaker 4: you're my brother, you know, and to lose Mike and

608
00:28:06,359 --> 00:28:09,280
Speaker 4: you know, you know all your whole team is part

609
00:28:09,280 --> 00:28:09,920
Speaker 4: of my family.

610
00:28:10,440 --> 00:28:14,080
Speaker 5: Yeah you know, uh Rich, Rich loved you to death,

611
00:28:14,720 --> 00:28:15,520
Speaker 5: my boy Rich.

612
00:28:16,440 --> 00:28:18,480
Speaker 2: That's why, that's why I started. I didn't even want to.

613
00:28:18,440 --> 00:28:19,000
Speaker 4: Say his name.

614
00:28:19,119 --> 00:28:20,640
Speaker 1: Yeah, Rich love.

615
00:28:20,680 --> 00:28:23,199
Speaker 4: I know, you see my teary eyes. I didn't even

616
00:28:23,240 --> 00:28:25,280
Speaker 4: want to say his name, you know. And I know

617
00:28:25,440 --> 00:28:26,760
Speaker 4: Rich would be happy, right.

618
00:28:26,880 --> 00:28:31,600
Speaker 5: Man, Rich you know yeah, definitely something like this, the pieces, Yeah,

619
00:28:32,119 --> 00:28:33,560
Speaker 5: something like this, he would work.

620
00:28:34,119 --> 00:28:37,680
Speaker 1: He's just like, man, that's that's that's great man.

621
00:28:37,720 --> 00:28:41,680
Speaker 5: You fin yo yo, man else Man, that's getting Then

622
00:28:41,680 --> 00:28:43,320
Speaker 5: he'll start up with his stories.

623
00:28:43,400 --> 00:28:43,600
Speaker 1: Man.

624
00:28:43,840 --> 00:28:46,920
Speaker 5: I remember when I drove from here and I drove

625
00:28:46,960 --> 00:28:49,520
Speaker 5: from men. She was in this that he just loved

626
00:28:49,560 --> 00:28:52,120
Speaker 5: when he was on the radio and just I mean,

627
00:28:52,840 --> 00:28:56,400
Speaker 5: you was somebody that I can say that he truly

628
00:28:56,560 --> 00:28:57,719
Speaker 5: loved as a friend.

629
00:28:57,960 --> 00:28:59,960
Speaker 1: And that was you know what I'm saying.

630
00:29:00,760 --> 00:29:05,040
Speaker 5: He never wanted nothing, He never wanted nothing, just just

631
00:29:05,080 --> 00:29:07,760
Speaker 5: to be considered your friend, was Rich, you know what

632
00:29:07,800 --> 00:29:08,280
Speaker 5: I'm saying.

633
00:29:08,360 --> 00:29:10,080
Speaker 1: So it's let's.

634
00:29:09,920 --> 00:29:14,680
Speaker 4: Say and and was my dear friend.

635
00:29:15,160 --> 00:29:18,760
Speaker 1: Yeah that broke my heart. Yeah, definitely, that broke my heart.

636
00:29:18,560 --> 00:29:23,120
Speaker 4: Because my and like you said, would do anything, loved

637
00:29:23,200 --> 00:29:25,920
Speaker 4: me to pieces with no strings attached.

638
00:29:26,560 --> 00:29:30,560
Speaker 2: Whatever you need, y'all, I don't mind whatever I got you.

639
00:29:30,640 --> 00:29:35,440
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was rich and rappen. Yeah, definitely, yes, indeed.

640
00:29:39,280 --> 00:29:41,840
Speaker 3: You know now that we talk about that, right, it's

641
00:29:42,040 --> 00:29:46,480
Speaker 3: very important to not take time for granted. I see

642
00:29:46,480 --> 00:29:48,400
Speaker 3: a lot of people and that's my biggest missage to

643
00:29:48,480 --> 00:29:50,480
Speaker 3: my kids. It's like, don't waste time. And I tell

644
00:29:50,520 --> 00:29:52,280
Speaker 3: my team that I said, we could do anything y'all

645
00:29:52,360 --> 00:29:54,600
Speaker 3: want to y'all want to shoot movies, y'all want to

646
00:29:54,600 --> 00:29:56,680
Speaker 3: develop more podcasts. We can do that, but just don't

647
00:29:56,680 --> 00:29:59,400
Speaker 3: waste time. It's so precious because all the time that

648
00:29:59,440 --> 00:30:03,000
Speaker 3: we got now, man, it's real special. So I try

649
00:30:03,000 --> 00:30:06,840
Speaker 3: to really like just handle my time like it's my

650
00:30:06,920 --> 00:30:09,640
Speaker 3: most precious assets, you know, because you can lose money,

651
00:30:09,920 --> 00:30:11,080
Speaker 3: you can recook money, you know.

652
00:30:11,120 --> 00:30:12,600
Speaker 1: I almost a whole bunch of money and.

653
00:30:12,560 --> 00:30:14,960
Speaker 3: Got it back, right, but you can't get time back

654
00:30:15,000 --> 00:30:17,360
Speaker 3: once it's gone. So it's important to just, you know,

655
00:30:17,560 --> 00:30:20,200
Speaker 3: move the right way.

656
00:30:19,440 --> 00:30:22,480
Speaker 2: And do you guys cook? Do you guys cook? Any

657
00:30:22,520 --> 00:30:23,040
Speaker 2: of you cook?

658
00:30:24,080 --> 00:30:25,880
Speaker 1: Oh man, I'm probably one of the best cooks on

659
00:30:25,920 --> 00:30:26,400
Speaker 1: the planet.

660
00:30:26,400 --> 00:30:29,520
Speaker 5: Man, I'm really, really good.

661
00:30:30,320 --> 00:30:32,520
Speaker 3: I really good. I make a bomb, pot rolls. I

662
00:30:32,560 --> 00:30:34,960
Speaker 3: hooked a steak up for for real, for real, any

663
00:30:35,040 --> 00:30:37,720
Speaker 3: kind of thing. You gotta remember, I can hook anything up.

664
00:30:37,760 --> 00:30:40,080
Speaker 3: I'm from the east side of Cleveland, right, so I

665
00:30:40,120 --> 00:30:42,120
Speaker 3: grew up. You know, we didn't have everything, so I

666
00:30:42,200 --> 00:30:45,880
Speaker 3: know how to make anything into just a feast.

667
00:30:46,280 --> 00:30:48,600
Speaker 2: Wow. I love that. I love that. Okay, we gotta

668
00:30:48,640 --> 00:30:49,600
Speaker 2: we gotta cook together.

669
00:30:49,840 --> 00:30:52,800
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, shoot for sure. I think get down,

670
00:30:52,920 --> 00:30:53,400
Speaker 1: look bit.

671
00:30:53,720 --> 00:30:56,520
Speaker 2: Eat, I see a cooking. What you cooking?

672
00:30:57,000 --> 00:30:57,400
Speaker 1: Cook some.

673
00:30:57,640 --> 00:31:01,240
Speaker 5: I cooked some ship like your grandma used to make.

674
00:31:01,360 --> 00:31:04,920
Speaker 5: I'm not no healthy person right now, so we're gonna be.

675
00:31:04,880 --> 00:31:08,440
Speaker 4: Some That's okay either. I like I like cork chops

676
00:31:08,480 --> 00:31:09,080
Speaker 4: and bacon and.

677
00:31:09,040 --> 00:31:11,120
Speaker 5: Eggs when you talk about yeah, we're still on that

678
00:31:11,160 --> 00:31:15,880
Speaker 5: type of ship right now. So but uh, the kids

679
00:31:15,960 --> 00:31:19,720
Speaker 5: don't complain. You give me my son every time he

680
00:31:19,800 --> 00:31:23,000
Speaker 5: comes from college, he always man, can you make this?

681
00:31:23,160 --> 00:31:26,080
Speaker 5: Can you make that? Can you make this? And uh,

682
00:31:26,240 --> 00:31:29,960
Speaker 5: he don't complain. So I'm doing something right, you feel me?

683
00:31:31,640 --> 00:31:35,520
Speaker 2: Okay, Well, let's do this. Let's we're gonna cook together.

684
00:31:36,040 --> 00:31:37,120
Speaker 1: I'm with that. Yeah.

685
00:31:37,480 --> 00:31:41,080
Speaker 2: On the show, on the show in the kitchen. On

686
00:31:41,200 --> 00:31:42,760
Speaker 2: the showing in the kitchen.

687
00:31:43,400 --> 00:31:44,560
Speaker 1: I'm the show for sure.

688
00:31:45,120 --> 00:31:46,320
Speaker 2: Well for y'all on.

689
00:31:46,360 --> 00:31:49,800
Speaker 4: The showing in the kitchen, let's cook together, let's screen

690
00:31:49,920 --> 00:31:53,360
Speaker 4: Coptain and the Captain and Cleveland and Yo.

691
00:31:53,240 --> 00:31:55,360
Speaker 2: Yo's kitchen, I'm with it.

692
00:31:55,360 --> 00:31:56,960
Speaker 3: I don't with it for sure, because I'm gonna tell

693
00:31:57,000 --> 00:31:59,320
Speaker 3: you like this. You know, when you grew up in

694
00:31:59,320 --> 00:32:01,560
Speaker 3: the hoods, your mom go to work. My moms went

695
00:32:01,600 --> 00:32:03,600
Speaker 3: to work, step pops at work. So it was like

696
00:32:03,640 --> 00:32:05,600
Speaker 3: when I came on from football prices, it was like,

697
00:32:05,640 --> 00:32:07,560
Speaker 3: cook this for your brothers. I don't lift this out.

698
00:32:07,840 --> 00:32:08,040
Speaker 1: You know.

699
00:32:08,120 --> 00:32:10,120
Speaker 3: She has some shops that was thrown out in her

700
00:32:10,120 --> 00:32:11,719
Speaker 3: fish wating out and I had to cook. Man, I've

701
00:32:11,720 --> 00:32:13,720
Speaker 3: been cooking since I was quite like nine years old.

702
00:32:14,240 --> 00:32:14,480
Speaker 1: Yeah.

703
00:32:14,680 --> 00:32:17,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, they don't. They don't. They don't. The mamas don't

704
00:32:17,200 --> 00:32:17,760
Speaker 2: make the kids.

705
00:32:17,800 --> 00:32:20,360
Speaker 4: Remember we used to have to scale the scale the

706
00:32:20,480 --> 00:32:24,520
Speaker 4: uh uh uh, shave the scales off of the fish.

707
00:32:24,800 --> 00:32:26,800
Speaker 4: I'm gonna put them fish in the in the in

708
00:32:26,840 --> 00:32:29,000
Speaker 4: the in the sea. We'd have to go take all

709
00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:31,840
Speaker 4: the shells off with the school just you know, clean

710
00:32:31,880 --> 00:32:34,080
Speaker 4: the fish. They don't even clean the fish anymore.

711
00:32:34,160 --> 00:32:36,040
Speaker 2: Now you go and your fish is all cut up

712
00:32:36,080 --> 00:32:41,800
Speaker 2: for you. You go to a uh international market market

713
00:32:42,880 --> 00:32:43,800
Speaker 2: for a whole fish.

714
00:32:44,080 --> 00:32:44,760
Speaker 1: Mom's value.

715
00:32:44,920 --> 00:32:47,280
Speaker 2: Yeah, we used to pop the pie. We used to

716
00:32:47,320 --> 00:32:50,280
Speaker 2: take the steal off the cops.

717
00:32:50,880 --> 00:32:51,760
Speaker 1: Yeah, momb's value.

718
00:32:51,840 --> 00:32:56,720
Speaker 5: And for your nowadays snapping them beans, sapping beans?

719
00:32:57,120 --> 00:33:02,920
Speaker 3: Man, what I think it is nowadays too? I think

720
00:33:03,040 --> 00:33:05,640
Speaker 3: kids is entitled and spoiled a little bit, right. They

721
00:33:05,680 --> 00:33:08,200
Speaker 3: didn't have they like the struggle. Ain't there no more?

722
00:33:08,240 --> 00:33:10,720
Speaker 3: Because I look at my kids, it's like a buffet

723
00:33:10,760 --> 00:33:13,400
Speaker 3: when they little lift. I if we cook something or

724
00:33:13,440 --> 00:33:15,120
Speaker 3: I don't want that, I want spaghetti, and you get

725
00:33:15,160 --> 00:33:17,320
Speaker 3: one saying they want chicken. And my wife would be

726
00:33:17,400 --> 00:33:19,440
Speaker 3: down there cooking all that. And my mama's house it

727
00:33:19,480 --> 00:33:21,320
Speaker 3: was whatever she made, that's what what dinner was.

728
00:33:21,320 --> 00:33:22,120
Speaker 1: And you go starve.

729
00:33:22,560 --> 00:33:26,040
Speaker 2: That's right, that's right, that's right.

730
00:33:26,120 --> 00:33:28,760
Speaker 3: Well I cut all that catering out. I said, no, whatevery,

731
00:33:28,920 --> 00:33:31,160
Speaker 3: whatever he's made, that's what y'all go eat all this

732
00:33:31,760 --> 00:33:32,800
Speaker 3: to meals.

733
00:33:33,040 --> 00:33:35,200
Speaker 2: We not doing all that my house too.

734
00:33:35,600 --> 00:33:37,920
Speaker 4: I make I make the dinner, I make one pot,

735
00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:41,280
Speaker 4: I make one one meal for dinner, I make one

736
00:33:41,280 --> 00:33:42,280
Speaker 4: meal for breakfast.

737
00:33:43,920 --> 00:33:45,400
Speaker 1: And if you don't want it you can starve.

738
00:33:46,040 --> 00:33:49,440
Speaker 4: Yeah, and now now that now that we're empty nesters,

739
00:33:49,680 --> 00:33:51,680
Speaker 4: I do make my baby whatever you want.

740
00:33:51,680 --> 00:33:51,960
Speaker 2: What's that?

741
00:33:52,800 --> 00:33:55,040
Speaker 3: But yeah, well you know what. That's how it is

742
00:33:55,080 --> 00:33:57,600
Speaker 3: once your kids leave because the time goes so fast.

743
00:33:57,640 --> 00:34:01,080
Speaker 3: And oh shoot, I'm my daughter's in the house. Though

744
00:34:01,080 --> 00:34:03,120
Speaker 3: my daughter can't go nowhere to she meet the right

745
00:34:03,200 --> 00:34:05,040
Speaker 3: dude until she get married to some dude asked for

746
00:34:05,080 --> 00:34:07,760
Speaker 3: her hand. Because it ain't gonna be no living No, no,

747
00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:10,200
Speaker 3: we're not lifting, we're living together. It ain't gonna be

748
00:34:10,239 --> 00:34:12,080
Speaker 3: none of that. You gotta come correct. You got to

749
00:34:12,080 --> 00:34:13,960
Speaker 3: have a ring and a plan. And when y'all get married,

750
00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:16,200
Speaker 3: then y'all can move in together. Un unless you be

751
00:34:16,239 --> 00:34:19,120
Speaker 3: in my house with me. That's right, you know what

752
00:34:19,160 --> 00:34:22,279
Speaker 3: I'm saying. So this is the I want to make

753
00:34:22,280 --> 00:34:25,759
Speaker 3: sure I gotta right this the second season of the show, right, yep?

754
00:34:25,840 --> 00:34:28,240
Speaker 4: Second is I think we're moving into the third season

755
00:34:28,440 --> 00:34:29,320
Speaker 4: if I'm not mistaken.

756
00:34:29,360 --> 00:34:29,960
Speaker 2: Third season.

757
00:34:30,960 --> 00:34:35,279
Speaker 1: Congratulations, that's big. Yeah, so that's really big. All right?

758
00:34:35,320 --> 00:34:37,279
Speaker 4: Are you and we and we're like, we're in the

759
00:34:37,280 --> 00:34:41,239
Speaker 4: top three. Our show is in the top three. We

760
00:34:41,320 --> 00:34:47,239
Speaker 4: got some statistics back from the President CEO of aspire

761
00:34:47,880 --> 00:34:52,200
Speaker 4: and they said, since our show started, we have helped

762
00:34:52,400 --> 00:34:56,240
Speaker 4: the percentage go up from thirty five to forty five percent.

763
00:34:57,480 --> 00:35:00,080
Speaker 4: Hocky clock and Clock is so.

764
00:35:00,239 --> 00:35:02,239
Speaker 2: I mean, you know, it really is good.

765
00:35:02,640 --> 00:35:04,560
Speaker 4: And as you know, this is the first time I

766
00:35:04,600 --> 00:35:07,360
Speaker 4: get to see myself as Yolanda Whittaker in the kitchen.

767
00:35:07,680 --> 00:35:10,759
Speaker 4: It's not yo yo, of course, my personality. I'm always me,

768
00:35:11,160 --> 00:35:13,080
Speaker 4: so I gotta rap in me. You know, I got

769
00:35:13,160 --> 00:35:16,279
Speaker 4: music in my head when no music is playing. You know,

770
00:35:16,360 --> 00:35:18,959
Speaker 4: the music, the food make me dance, So you're gonna

771
00:35:18,960 --> 00:35:22,279
Speaker 4: get me. I'm a mixologist, so I'm making cocktails. I

772
00:35:22,360 --> 00:35:25,759
Speaker 4: talk shit. So I'm playing dominoes and my guest is

773
00:35:25,760 --> 00:35:29,960
Speaker 4: getting a real interview from me. And I'm making some delicious, quick,

774
00:35:30,400 --> 00:35:35,440
Speaker 4: budget friendly, some vegan, plant based dishes. I'm inviting some

775
00:35:35,480 --> 00:35:40,760
Speaker 4: of my homeboys, homegirls, industry friends, actors, family members, kids

776
00:35:41,200 --> 00:35:43,960
Speaker 4: in the kitchen and you just get it wrong. I mean,

777
00:35:43,960 --> 00:35:46,680
Speaker 4: it's almost like you're watching the show, but you're watching

778
00:35:46,719 --> 00:35:49,279
Speaker 4: me in the kitchen in my home as if you

779
00:35:49,280 --> 00:35:53,320
Speaker 4: want to like the same comfortable space wearing right now,

780
00:35:53,520 --> 00:35:55,360
Speaker 4: that's how it is in the kitchen while we cooking

781
00:35:55,600 --> 00:35:57,960
Speaker 4: and we're just doing it like you say, YO like

782
00:35:58,040 --> 00:36:00,560
Speaker 4: to have this, and it's okay, well you wanna add something,

783
00:36:00,640 --> 00:36:02,920
Speaker 4: chop this up, you know. So it's just really a

784
00:36:02,920 --> 00:36:06,239
Speaker 4: lot of fun. The dishes are good. They're outside of

785
00:36:06,280 --> 00:36:08,640
Speaker 4: the Southern style that I'm used to. My mother only

786
00:36:08,680 --> 00:36:12,520
Speaker 4: made specific dishes Thanksgiving kind of food. She'll make some

787
00:36:12,600 --> 00:36:15,720
Speaker 4: salmon croquettes and all this other different stuff. But because

788
00:36:15,760 --> 00:36:18,600
Speaker 4: I've traveled for the last thirty five years, of course

789
00:36:18,640 --> 00:36:21,640
Speaker 4: I didn't been to some of the most fabulous places.

790
00:36:21,680 --> 00:36:23,600
Speaker 4: And what do I do when I get there, I'm

791
00:36:23,640 --> 00:36:25,279
Speaker 4: asking them and what did they put in this?

792
00:36:25,440 --> 00:36:26,959
Speaker 2: And what kind of stuff is done?

793
00:36:26,960 --> 00:36:29,319
Speaker 4: And you know, you know, we didn't grow up eating

794
00:36:29,320 --> 00:36:31,840
Speaker 4: a rugola and our making our sandwiches with a rugula.

795
00:36:31,920 --> 00:36:36,400
Speaker 2: We use regular lettuce, so you know, so it just

796
00:36:36,520 --> 00:36:38,000
Speaker 2: it just enticed the dishes.

797
00:36:38,160 --> 00:36:40,680
Speaker 4: And I'm talking to my people when I'm cooking, you know,

798
00:36:40,719 --> 00:36:44,400
Speaker 4: as fire TV is a network where you can see yourself,

799
00:36:44,680 --> 00:36:48,839
Speaker 4: so I'm really talking to my my audience, and so

800
00:36:48,920 --> 00:36:51,240
Speaker 4: they get it because you know, we really want to cook,

801
00:36:51,920 --> 00:36:53,399
Speaker 4: you know, we want to just we want to make

802
00:36:53,440 --> 00:36:55,480
Speaker 4: good dishes. We don't want to have to go out

803
00:36:55,760 --> 00:36:57,760
Speaker 4: and pay seventeen dollars for a sandwich.

804
00:36:57,800 --> 00:36:58,959
Speaker 2: We can make ourselves.

805
00:36:58,960 --> 00:37:01,320
Speaker 4: And only difference is they're using a different type of

806
00:37:01,400 --> 00:37:03,120
Speaker 4: lettuce or a different type.

807
00:37:02,880 --> 00:37:04,359
Speaker 2: Of cheese, you know what I mean.

808
00:37:04,400 --> 00:37:06,320
Speaker 4: We had three or four cheeses we know about in

809
00:37:06,360 --> 00:37:09,120
Speaker 4: the stores, but there's so many cheeses out there. And

810
00:37:09,120 --> 00:37:11,919
Speaker 4: that's what the you know, the show does. It introduces

811
00:37:12,000 --> 00:37:15,399
Speaker 4: our audience to just the brighter rising. And I didn't

812
00:37:15,360 --> 00:37:17,360
Speaker 4: already did the homework. I did the leg work. I

813
00:37:17,360 --> 00:37:21,480
Speaker 4: went out there and tried all this shit. Already you

814
00:37:21,600 --> 00:37:21,880
Speaker 4: knew me.

815
00:37:23,320 --> 00:37:28,160
Speaker 5: So is your next You think you're gonna transition and

816
00:37:28,200 --> 00:37:29,280
Speaker 5: try to open a restaurant.

817
00:37:31,880 --> 00:37:34,440
Speaker 4: No, I don't want to do a restaurant. A restaurant

818
00:37:34,440 --> 00:37:38,080
Speaker 4: it's hard to have. We have a comedy store restaurant

819
00:37:38,239 --> 00:37:42,920
Speaker 4: in Virginia and that's a hard business to run. I

820
00:37:43,000 --> 00:37:45,600
Speaker 4: like the chefs to do the work. Like I said,

821
00:37:45,640 --> 00:37:48,000
Speaker 4: I'm not a chef. I just love to cook. The

822
00:37:48,080 --> 00:37:51,560
Speaker 4: fact that I get to do the work on television,

823
00:37:51,800 --> 00:37:54,600
Speaker 4: bring you into my home and cook, I think that's

824
00:37:54,640 --> 00:37:55,240
Speaker 4: the blessing.

825
00:37:55,800 --> 00:37:57,320
Speaker 2: That's the blessing. I don't have to slave.

826
00:37:57,480 --> 00:37:59,759
Speaker 4: My mother might want a food truck that she can

827
00:38:00,040 --> 00:38:01,799
Speaker 4: when she get ready to pull up and make her

828
00:38:01,880 --> 00:38:04,719
Speaker 4: cabbage burgers and do what she do. And then I

829
00:38:04,800 --> 00:38:06,520
Speaker 4: pop up every now and then. But I don't want

830
00:38:06,520 --> 00:38:11,080
Speaker 4: the responsibility. You know, I'm fifty four in the all time,

831
00:38:11,360 --> 00:38:13,120
Speaker 4: you know, I just I.

832
00:38:13,040 --> 00:38:14,359
Speaker 2: Get the money. I do the show.

833
00:38:15,600 --> 00:38:15,839
Speaker 1: You know.

834
00:38:16,280 --> 00:38:19,200
Speaker 2: I definitely want to do some merchandise, you know, and

835
00:38:19,280 --> 00:38:21,280
Speaker 2: I do. I like pop up shops.

836
00:38:21,320 --> 00:38:23,440
Speaker 4: I want to go and you know, do some stuff

837
00:38:23,480 --> 00:38:26,160
Speaker 4: like that. But to be dedicated to it and start

838
00:38:26,200 --> 00:38:26,840
Speaker 4: a restaurant, I.

839
00:38:27,120 --> 00:38:27,839
Speaker 2: Don't want to do that.

840
00:38:29,360 --> 00:38:31,319
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a lot of work I had on my

841
00:38:31,520 --> 00:38:33,560
Speaker 3: I actually got a brother that had a restaurant. He says,

842
00:38:33,560 --> 00:38:35,080
Speaker 3: it's a lot of theft too. You said, you got

843
00:38:35,080 --> 00:38:36,520
Speaker 3: to be there twenty four to seven. The people to

844
00:38:36,600 --> 00:38:37,320
Speaker 3: rob you blind.

845
00:38:38,360 --> 00:38:41,200
Speaker 4: It's another baby, and you can't give your baby to everybody.

846
00:38:41,239 --> 00:38:44,319
Speaker 4: You just can't hand that restaurant over, you know. And

847
00:38:44,520 --> 00:38:46,120
Speaker 4: I want to get to the place where I can

848
00:38:46,239 --> 00:38:49,440
Speaker 4: really you know, I'm trying to be debt free, and

849
00:38:49,480 --> 00:38:52,480
Speaker 4: so I'm really just trying to just get ready to

850
00:38:52,600 --> 00:38:54,920
Speaker 4: live and not really hustle so much.

851
00:38:54,960 --> 00:38:56,120
Speaker 2: I'm a hard worker, you know.

852
00:38:56,400 --> 00:38:59,239
Speaker 4: I'm on the radio, I have the cooking show, I

853
00:38:59,400 --> 00:39:02,160
Speaker 4: do the did Yo yo school a hip hop. I

854
00:39:02,239 --> 00:39:06,360
Speaker 4: travel to eighteen cities a year. I do scholarships, I

855
00:39:06,400 --> 00:39:07,319
Speaker 4: do seminars.

856
00:39:07,800 --> 00:39:08,000
Speaker 2: You know.

857
00:39:08,120 --> 00:39:11,120
Speaker 4: So I have so much stuff going on that I'm ready.

858
00:39:11,920 --> 00:39:13,879
Speaker 4: I'm ready for that, just you know, to pop in

859
00:39:13,920 --> 00:39:14,600
Speaker 4: and pop out.

860
00:39:15,840 --> 00:39:25,960
Speaker 1: I heard that show. No, so you still so you

861
00:39:26,040 --> 00:39:26,840
Speaker 1: still doing radio?

862
00:39:27,440 --> 00:39:30,680
Speaker 4: I still do radios. I'm in my tenth year of radio.

863
00:39:32,080 --> 00:39:32,880
Speaker 4: Local radio.

864
00:39:33,880 --> 00:39:36,480
Speaker 1: That is dope. That is real dope. You know what.

865
00:39:36,640 --> 00:39:38,520
Speaker 3: Me and they had a me and they had a

866
00:39:38,600 --> 00:39:40,799
Speaker 3: radio show and it was in like a bunch of

867
00:39:40,800 --> 00:39:43,240
Speaker 3: secondary of markets. It was maybe like a nine markets,

868
00:39:43,640 --> 00:39:45,600
Speaker 3: and we was number one. And we had that food.

869
00:39:45,680 --> 00:39:48,520
Speaker 3: She'll dj a mixed for us one night. This food

870
00:39:48,600 --> 00:39:50,279
Speaker 3: she will didn't take none of the curse words out.

871
00:39:50,320 --> 00:39:52,480
Speaker 3: He on there mixing freak details and everything else. The

872
00:39:52,560 --> 00:39:55,399
Speaker 3: owner the station coffee, You said, men, what is Shaw

873
00:39:55,760 --> 00:39:56,719
Speaker 3: when I'm listening now?

874
00:39:56,800 --> 00:39:58,560
Speaker 1: This people are her cussin? Man?

875
00:39:58,600 --> 00:40:01,440
Speaker 3: We had so many fines that said man. I said, So,

876
00:40:01,600 --> 00:40:04,040
Speaker 3: I said, Bob, probably you said, that's okay, y'all fired,

877
00:40:04,080 --> 00:40:07,960
Speaker 3: y'all can do the show no more. She'll messed our

878
00:40:08,000 --> 00:40:10,120
Speaker 3: show up. Eight But she had they was on their

879
00:40:10,120 --> 00:40:12,400
Speaker 3: cushion and everything else. I said, oh my god.

880
00:40:14,239 --> 00:40:17,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, the industry definitely changed. I love it.

881
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Speaker 4: We through syndicated radio Channel one, wearing forty two markets.

882
00:40:22,719 --> 00:40:25,000
Speaker 4: We were on our fifth Gracie Award. It's meet and

883
00:40:25,120 --> 00:40:27,680
Speaker 4: the award win Elanie Love and Angelique our producer.

884
00:40:28,680 --> 00:40:31,200
Speaker 2: So yeah, we've been on for Yeah.

885
00:40:31,400 --> 00:40:33,440
Speaker 1: That is real, real dope man, right there.

886
00:40:33,480 --> 00:40:36,000
Speaker 3: Man, I'm proud of you because you really, like I'm

887
00:40:36,000 --> 00:40:39,879
Speaker 3: gonna tell all y'all aspiring young ladies that rap out there.

888
00:40:40,160 --> 00:40:41,879
Speaker 3: This is the model of who y'all want to model

889
00:40:41,920 --> 00:40:45,160
Speaker 3: y'all career after. Because she never did nothing embarrassing, like

890
00:40:45,239 --> 00:40:48,680
Speaker 3: you never embarrassed yourself, thank you. You never did nothing

891
00:40:48,680 --> 00:40:53,640
Speaker 3: that you was you know, everybody liked Yoyody was fine

892
00:40:53,680 --> 00:40:56,840
Speaker 3: and you know still you know, no disrespect your husband,

893
00:40:56,840 --> 00:40:59,520
Speaker 3: but everybody liked yo yo. But it was it was

894
00:40:59,560 --> 00:41:01,080
Speaker 3: a class and this about you. That was the way

895
00:41:01,120 --> 00:41:04,359
Speaker 3: you carried yourself. Yeah, and that's why. And you're able

896
00:41:04,360 --> 00:41:06,120
Speaker 3: to transition now because you don't have nothing to be

897
00:41:06,160 --> 00:41:06,879
Speaker 3: ashamed of in.

898
00:41:06,840 --> 00:41:09,600
Speaker 4: Your PASTA that's right now and that's right, and that's

899
00:41:10,239 --> 00:41:12,800
Speaker 4: that's why chill shit.

900
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Speaker 3: Ye yeah, yeah, don't you don't have nothing to be

901
00:41:16,920 --> 00:41:19,480
Speaker 3: ashamed of it. You know this all, not this and

902
00:41:19,480 --> 00:41:21,360
Speaker 3: none of these other young ladies. I'm glad these sisters

903
00:41:21,360 --> 00:41:26,680
Speaker 3: getting their money. Exactly. I'm glad these sisters getting their

904
00:41:26,680 --> 00:41:29,359
Speaker 3: money because hip hop is a hard game, man. So

905
00:41:30,360 --> 00:41:34,200
Speaker 3: let's tell of people good time and what day is

906
00:41:34,200 --> 00:41:35,719
Speaker 3: the show? Come on for all the people out there

907
00:41:35,760 --> 00:41:36,239
Speaker 3: that don't know.

908
00:41:36,680 --> 00:41:39,560
Speaker 4: All right, so it's downright Delicious. I'll be whipping in

909
00:41:39,600 --> 00:41:41,920
Speaker 4: that kitchen. Every dish that I'll be making be what

910
00:41:42,719 --> 00:41:45,840
Speaker 4: bing A liking, whether it's locks, Roses Steaks, Sammy Cakes

911
00:41:45,880 --> 00:41:46,680
Speaker 4: or Penny Posta.

912
00:41:46,800 --> 00:41:50,000
Speaker 2: Who got you my kitchens? Out of im Mama MIA's daughter,

913
00:41:50,200 --> 00:41:52,600
Speaker 2: And I did not come to play because I'm in

914
00:41:52,719 --> 00:41:53,720
Speaker 2: my happy place.

915
00:41:54,520 --> 00:42:00,360
Speaker 4: Downright Delicious with Yo Yo is on Aspire TV every

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Speaker 4: Thursday tonight. It's Thursday Downright Delicious eight pm Eastern Standard Time,

917
00:42:07,600 --> 00:42:12,760
Speaker 4: five pm on the West Coast. If you miss Downright Delicious,

918
00:42:12,800 --> 00:42:15,439
Speaker 4: you can catch us on Aspire TV Plus. And we're

919
00:42:15,520 --> 00:42:19,839
Speaker 4: also on Amazon or rhyme talk to me buy.

920
00:42:21,280 --> 00:42:24,120
Speaker 3: That's very very dope, man. Just the whole fact that

921
00:42:24,280 --> 00:42:26,680
Speaker 3: TV is a whole another level, and I don't think

922
00:42:26,719 --> 00:42:28,799
Speaker 3: people realize how much work TV is.

923
00:42:29,480 --> 00:42:34,080
Speaker 4: Yeah, Oh, listen, listen and when are you doing three

924
00:42:34,120 --> 00:42:38,719
Speaker 4: shows a day? Three shows a day? But let me

925
00:42:38,760 --> 00:42:43,280
Speaker 4: tell you, it's that discipline. It's that discipline. I wanted

926
00:42:43,320 --> 00:42:46,239
Speaker 4: it so bad, and every time it's time to go

927
00:42:46,280 --> 00:42:49,880
Speaker 4: back in there, I feel like, okay, And it's something

928
00:42:49,880 --> 00:42:52,760
Speaker 4: that I constantly work at. We're not filming right now,

929
00:42:53,120 --> 00:42:57,319
Speaker 4: but I'm constantly cooking. I'm always you know, they say,

930
00:42:57,600 --> 00:42:59,840
Speaker 4: you know I'm now I'm making cakes. You know, nobody

931
00:42:59,840 --> 00:43:03,840
Speaker 4: wanted to give me my grandma's recipe and the family

932
00:43:04,280 --> 00:43:08,080
Speaker 4: I found another poundcake recipe, probably better than my grandmama's

933
00:43:08,080 --> 00:43:10,560
Speaker 4: when I'm still gonna call it Emma's polecakes.

934
00:43:11,280 --> 00:43:16,000
Speaker 3: That's right, Yeah, Yeah, that's right. I don't know why

935
00:43:16,080 --> 00:43:17,840
Speaker 3: family members be hating on the recipes.

936
00:43:17,880 --> 00:43:19,520
Speaker 2: Don't they hate on recipes?

937
00:43:20,120 --> 00:43:22,480
Speaker 3: Yeah, they hated on the recipes, trying to hold everything

938
00:43:22,480 --> 00:43:24,560
Speaker 3: for themselves, and they be making it wrong half the time.

939
00:43:24,840 --> 00:43:27,720
Speaker 2: Listen, I'm not hating on the spire TV.

940
00:43:27,840 --> 00:43:29,600
Speaker 4: So you gotta check it out. And I want you

941
00:43:29,640 --> 00:43:31,279
Speaker 4: to try one of my dishes. I want you to

942
00:43:31,320 --> 00:43:34,040
Speaker 4: try one of the dishes you cook, try one up

943
00:43:34,080 --> 00:43:36,120
Speaker 4: for sure you would like again, just write down the

944
00:43:36,160 --> 00:43:38,399
Speaker 4: recipe and try it for sure.

945
00:43:38,400 --> 00:43:40,719
Speaker 3: I'm definitely. I'm definitely gonna tap in with it and

946
00:43:40,760 --> 00:43:43,080
Speaker 3: get it done because I'm gonna tell you my daughter

947
00:43:43,080 --> 00:43:45,680
Speaker 3: probably could better than not do. Now she's become the queen.

948
00:43:45,960 --> 00:43:48,160
Speaker 3: She's become the queen the spoon right now. Man, my

949
00:43:48,239 --> 00:43:49,160
Speaker 3: daughter gets busy.

950
00:43:49,840 --> 00:43:50,520
Speaker 2: But that's good.

951
00:43:50,600 --> 00:43:51,760
Speaker 1: Yeah, she get busy.

952
00:43:51,880 --> 00:43:53,640
Speaker 3: She finally made mac and she's better than I do

953
00:43:53,680 --> 00:43:55,680
Speaker 3: because that was one of my specialties. Now I don't

954
00:43:55,680 --> 00:43:57,520
Speaker 3: get the request. They always say, let jazz and make

955
00:43:57,520 --> 00:43:58,120
Speaker 3: the macaronis.

956
00:43:58,160 --> 00:44:01,640
Speaker 4: Oh, why, that's what cook and do.

957
00:44:01,800 --> 00:44:03,200
Speaker 2: That's what consistency does.

958
00:44:03,239 --> 00:44:07,879
Speaker 5: What you say, what you say, Yes, indeed, consistency makes

959
00:44:08,040 --> 00:44:11,640
Speaker 5: acting instead, So shaid Bocket, that's go. I tell you,

960
00:44:11,719 --> 00:44:15,160
Speaker 5: ka Ryan and what he do, consistency will always make it,

961
00:44:15,239 --> 00:44:18,279
Speaker 5: make it better. It don't matter. Just keep just keep

962
00:44:18,280 --> 00:44:20,719
Speaker 5: trying doing and keep doing it. Next thing, you know

963
00:44:20,800 --> 00:44:23,759
Speaker 5: you're gonna be able to overcome. Motherfucker's gonna be requesting

964
00:44:23,840 --> 00:44:27,280
Speaker 5: you shit, yeah, anything they tell you set your ass down.

965
00:44:27,360 --> 00:44:32,759
Speaker 3: Still, well, yeah, hey, gladly, because I can sit back

966
00:44:32,800 --> 00:44:34,520
Speaker 3: and bring me your glass, elim lady, and she'll gonna

967
00:44:34,520 --> 00:44:36,680
Speaker 3: watch her cook and she tells me get off the

968
00:44:36,719 --> 00:44:38,680
Speaker 3: kitchen all the time. She said here, you come give

969
00:44:38,719 --> 00:44:41,200
Speaker 3: me your input that they needed, because I always tell

970
00:44:41,239 --> 00:44:42,560
Speaker 3: you need to turn out that a little bit more.

971
00:44:42,600 --> 00:44:43,919
Speaker 3: You need to put some more of that in there.

972
00:44:44,120 --> 00:44:45,839
Speaker 3: And she said, then you go add and salt the stuff.

973
00:44:45,880 --> 00:44:47,480
Speaker 3: You ain't even take you to see if I don't

974
00:44:47,480 --> 00:44:50,960
Speaker 3: put salt in there already. You know, I think that's

975
00:44:51,000 --> 00:44:53,960
Speaker 3: one of the things that it's a great thing man

976
00:44:54,000 --> 00:44:57,560
Speaker 3: about food, because food is all about bringing family together. Yes,

977
00:44:58,320 --> 00:45:01,040
Speaker 3: you know, it's all about celebration st from the communities

978
00:45:01,080 --> 00:45:04,200
Speaker 3: that we come from. You know, Thanksgiving, Christmas, it's all

979
00:45:04,239 --> 00:45:05,920
Speaker 3: about the food. Even if you didn't have a bottom

980
00:45:05,960 --> 00:45:07,600
Speaker 3: of that tree, it was always a meal. It was

981
00:45:07,640 --> 00:45:09,120
Speaker 3: always about the meal and the fellowship.

982
00:45:09,480 --> 00:45:09,719
Speaker 2: Friends.

983
00:45:10,920 --> 00:45:15,560
Speaker 4: Yeah, my twenty two year old she's cooking now now

984
00:45:15,560 --> 00:45:17,640
Speaker 4: that she's in her new place. She's sending me all

985
00:45:17,680 --> 00:45:19,840
Speaker 4: of her dishes. You know, she said, how do I

986
00:45:19,960 --> 00:45:22,120
Speaker 4: make chili dogs? What kind of chili do I get?

987
00:45:22,480 --> 00:45:25,480
Speaker 4: You know, she's making this, I'm making tacos, I'm making

988
00:45:25,800 --> 00:45:26,760
Speaker 4: a street corn.

989
00:45:27,200 --> 00:45:27,400
Speaker 2: You know.

990
00:45:27,480 --> 00:45:29,320
Speaker 4: She's sending me all the videos I wanna make a

991
00:45:29,360 --> 00:45:31,759
Speaker 4: little video. I've been saving them and putting them on

992
00:45:31,840 --> 00:45:35,000
Speaker 4: She's only moved here since January twenty, I mean January second.

993
00:45:35,400 --> 00:45:37,360
Speaker 4: I'm saving all her videos. I gonna make her a

994
00:45:37,360 --> 00:45:40,919
Speaker 4: little a little real for my Instagram because she never

995
00:45:40,960 --> 00:45:43,160
Speaker 4: cooked that home. I mean she would make small dishes,

996
00:45:43,200 --> 00:45:45,680
Speaker 4: she would make breakfast. But now she's you know, she's

997
00:45:45,719 --> 00:45:47,440
Speaker 4: actually cooking and calling.

998
00:45:47,200 --> 00:45:50,520
Speaker 1: For doing it for her. She left that she acally.

999
00:45:51,800 --> 00:45:54,160
Speaker 4: And I love doing and I love cooking for them.

1000
00:45:54,440 --> 00:45:56,520
Speaker 4: But now I'm glad they out. I'm not one of

1001
00:45:56,520 --> 00:45:58,600
Speaker 4: them parents that say, oh I want my baby in

1002
00:45:58,640 --> 00:45:58,959
Speaker 4: the house.

1003
00:45:59,040 --> 00:46:01,879
Speaker 1: No, you glad they're gone.

1004
00:46:01,960 --> 00:46:02,120
Speaker 4: Man.

1005
00:46:02,160 --> 00:46:07,920
Speaker 3: You know what when they come, he was front just

1006
00:46:07,960 --> 00:46:08,480
Speaker 3: to visit.

1007
00:46:08,600 --> 00:46:11,000
Speaker 1: This bill. When they come for a visit and then

1008
00:46:11,000 --> 00:46:12,040
Speaker 1: they back.

1009
00:46:11,920 --> 00:46:15,600
Speaker 4: Yeah, right, I can, I can, I can put I

1010
00:46:15,640 --> 00:46:19,200
Speaker 4: can put my towels back out. Oh I don't have

1011
00:46:19,239 --> 00:46:21,239
Speaker 4: to buy the cheap paper towels. I can use the

1012
00:46:21,280 --> 00:46:22,360
Speaker 4: good paper towels.

1013
00:46:22,480 --> 00:46:26,719
Speaker 1: I can m that's that's that's corn kids.

1014
00:46:27,280 --> 00:46:27,480
Speaker 5: Yeah.

1015
00:46:27,520 --> 00:46:30,359
Speaker 4: When they wasn't buying, they didn't care. So now they

1016
00:46:30,400 --> 00:46:33,000
Speaker 4: got their own place, they can do it and I

1017
00:46:33,040 --> 00:46:35,239
Speaker 4: can go back to being like I was before.

1018
00:46:34,960 --> 00:46:35,760
Speaker 2: I had kids.

1019
00:46:36,360 --> 00:46:40,880
Speaker 3: Right, you know, I'm gonna to ask you, so I

1020
00:46:41,000 --> 00:46:43,000
Speaker 3: just I just got to go that for a spell.

1021
00:46:43,080 --> 00:46:44,759
Speaker 1: When he come home from college.

1022
00:46:45,560 --> 00:46:50,040
Speaker 5: The food bill gone bit, the light bill gonna raise

1023
00:46:50,120 --> 00:46:53,320
Speaker 5: a little bit, you know, and then I'll be like, Okay, nigga,

1024
00:46:53,400 --> 00:46:55,040
Speaker 5: when are you going back to school?

1025
00:46:55,239 --> 00:46:55,799
Speaker 1: You feel me?

1026
00:46:56,000 --> 00:46:56,080
Speaker 5: So?

1027
00:46:56,239 --> 00:47:02,640
Speaker 1: Yeah, get going back to school? Yeah for real, that's fright, that's.

1028
00:47:02,480 --> 00:47:05,520
Speaker 2: Right, that's fight. My bill's gonna be low next month.

1029
00:47:05,719 --> 00:47:07,239
Speaker 1: Yeah.

1030
00:47:07,360 --> 00:47:11,560
Speaker 3: I think I mentioned earlier. I mentioned earlier. I'm moving

1031
00:47:11,600 --> 00:47:13,399
Speaker 3: down to Texas, right, I'm going on to Texas. I'm

1032
00:47:13,400 --> 00:47:16,160
Speaker 3: bringing up I'm keep telling eighty let's go, man, let's go.

1033
00:47:16,239 --> 00:47:18,920
Speaker 3: But I'm praying to God go open up away that

1034
00:47:19,040 --> 00:47:21,000
Speaker 3: he leave California. You know how hard it is for

1035
00:47:21,040 --> 00:47:23,440
Speaker 3: y'all California is to move on from the state. Was

1036
00:47:23,480 --> 00:47:25,239
Speaker 3: it hard for you, ex justing live in the South?

1037
00:47:26,200 --> 00:47:27,359
Speaker 2: No?

1038
00:47:27,360 --> 00:47:30,960
Speaker 4: No, I mean because I've lived in Jersey for a while. No,

1039
00:47:31,080 --> 00:47:34,560
Speaker 4: I actually love it. I mean, but I've always had

1040
00:47:34,560 --> 00:47:37,719
Speaker 4: a whole year so I could always come home. But

1041
00:47:37,800 --> 00:47:38,359
Speaker 4: I love it.

1042
00:47:38,440 --> 00:47:39,920
Speaker 2: I love being away.

1043
00:47:40,280 --> 00:47:40,760
Speaker 4: You know.

1044
00:47:40,800 --> 00:47:43,399
Speaker 2: It's just like when you go away. No, it wasn't

1045
00:47:43,440 --> 00:47:43,920
Speaker 2: hard for me.

1046
00:47:44,280 --> 00:47:47,080
Speaker 4: I think you really see how much you appreciate it

1047
00:47:47,239 --> 00:47:50,239
Speaker 4: when you go away. I think La loves you, I know.

1048
00:47:50,320 --> 00:47:52,840
Speaker 4: I mean, I'm speaking to you eight, La loves you.

1049
00:47:52,960 --> 00:47:57,160
Speaker 4: But man, everywhere I go, man, they'd be like, I

1050
00:47:57,160 --> 00:47:59,680
Speaker 4: mean they loved him eight.

1051
00:47:59,800 --> 00:48:04,279
Speaker 1: Well to them all the time, I say, you love.

1052
00:48:04,560 --> 00:48:06,680
Speaker 2: You like I mean, LA loves you.

1053
00:48:06,719 --> 00:48:08,719
Speaker 4: Now. Don't get me wrong, he's one of he's one

1054
00:48:08,760 --> 00:48:13,480
Speaker 4: of our champions where La really loves our boy eight.

1055
00:48:13,600 --> 00:48:17,040
Speaker 2: But you go other places, they like us, you know, like.

1056
00:48:19,360 --> 00:48:21,400
Speaker 1: Well, I'm gonna tell you what was real doe.

1057
00:48:21,280 --> 00:48:24,120
Speaker 4: A story to tell and you like, I said, wow,

1058
00:48:24,239 --> 00:48:24,879
Speaker 4: I love it.

1059
00:48:25,200 --> 00:48:27,520
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm gonna tell you. I'm gonna tell you what dope.

1060
00:48:27,600 --> 00:48:31,399
Speaker 3: So well, we went down in iHeart. We went down

1061
00:48:31,480 --> 00:48:34,400
Speaker 3: as the Black Effect Festival. Right. We was in Atlantic, Georgia.

1062
00:48:35,680 --> 00:48:37,759
Speaker 3: We take the episode shout out to the Homy big

1063
00:48:37,800 --> 00:48:39,960
Speaker 3: gift from Goodie Mob m cam from out here. He

1064
00:48:40,120 --> 00:48:42,040
Speaker 3: was down there because he lives in Atlanta now. So

1065
00:48:42,040 --> 00:48:45,319
Speaker 3: we was down there and all the girls that worked

1066
00:48:45,320 --> 00:48:47,160
Speaker 3: in the office came out because they was like, oh

1067
00:48:47,200 --> 00:48:48,320
Speaker 3: eight is my favorite.

1068
00:48:48,360 --> 00:48:49,000
Speaker 1: I love him.

1069
00:48:49,680 --> 00:48:51,080
Speaker 2: He's women to work in office.

1070
00:48:51,239 --> 00:48:53,080
Speaker 3: I love MC eight. I had to come out here

1071
00:48:53,080 --> 00:48:56,200
Speaker 3: and just see him. I was laughing. I was laughing.

1072
00:48:56,800 --> 00:48:59,600
Speaker 3: It is very revered. Eight is very revered. They say

1073
00:48:59,640 --> 00:49:02,120
Speaker 3: you got to always leave up home home was what

1074
00:49:02,200 --> 00:49:02,799
Speaker 3: the hat is.

1075
00:49:04,680 --> 00:49:07,520
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, I mean I love California, but California

1076
00:49:07,560 --> 00:49:10,400
Speaker 4: to me, I had to come back to get my respect.

1077
00:49:10,520 --> 00:49:13,520
Speaker 4: I felt like, I felt like it just wasn't always

1078
00:49:13,600 --> 00:49:16,120
Speaker 4: there I had once I left, and people, you know,

1079
00:49:16,800 --> 00:49:20,320
Speaker 4: it just it just the unity where you know, people

1080
00:49:20,320 --> 00:49:22,360
Speaker 4: would think like you could just pick up the phone

1081
00:49:22,400 --> 00:49:23,400
Speaker 4: and do this and do that.

1082
00:49:23,480 --> 00:49:26,080
Speaker 2: It just wasn't as unified as I would have liked

1083
00:49:26,120 --> 00:49:26,480
Speaker 2: it to be.

1084
00:49:27,000 --> 00:49:28,839
Speaker 4: And even though we love each other and really didn't

1085
00:49:28,880 --> 00:49:31,799
Speaker 4: hate on each other, it just wasn't you know, you know,

1086
00:49:31,960 --> 00:49:34,680
Speaker 4: it was I'm up, you down, or it wasn't you know,

1087
00:49:35,200 --> 00:49:37,680
Speaker 4: it was the unity wasn't as solid as it could

1088
00:49:37,719 --> 00:49:39,520
Speaker 4: have been, Like when you go to the East Coast,

1089
00:49:39,960 --> 00:49:43,000
Speaker 4: you know, or when you go somewhere else Atlanta or

1090
00:49:43,200 --> 00:49:46,680
Speaker 4: you know, the unity just wasn't always consistent.

1091
00:49:46,719 --> 00:49:48,200
Speaker 2: I'd like to say, so it was.

1092
00:49:48,280 --> 00:49:51,560
Speaker 4: It's very hard, but man ain go somewhere else, and

1093
00:49:52,160 --> 00:49:54,840
Speaker 4: I mean, don't ever, you know, don't ever forget about home.

1094
00:49:54,920 --> 00:49:58,799
Speaker 2: But you know, you definitely have to watch your back.

1095
00:49:59,080 --> 00:50:00,879
Speaker 4: But you know, the only thing I have to say

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Speaker 4: about moving to another state is the hookups.

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Speaker 2: You don't get your hookups some more.

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Speaker 4: You know, they thinking you're gonna pay top dollar for

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Speaker 4: thing that is, you'd have to have somebody to know.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, for real man, for real man. Well, I'm

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Speaker 3: gonna go watch the show you said. It is only

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Speaker 3: five o'clock, right, I'm.

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Speaker 2: Watching alright Delicious for yo.

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Speaker 3: Yo, downright, Delstens. You know what, we go have a

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Speaker 3: link down there for y'all too, for y'all to be

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Speaker 3: able to go do it, because you know, some of

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Speaker 3: our people listen to our show. We have some very

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Speaker 3: intelligent people, but then we got some other people. You know,

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Speaker 3: people get lazy now, so you have to almost give

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Speaker 3: them a direction, you gotta. I'm gonna leave a link

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Speaker 3: for y'all down there, and we appreciate you coming on.

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Speaker 4: Is.

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Speaker 1: I know you had a busy day, Tom.

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Speaker 2: I'm not done. I gotta go.

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Speaker 4: I'm doing Tammy Mack at five o'clock and then I'm

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Speaker 4: doing Grammy Weekend and doing some red carpets. But I

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Speaker 4: thank you so much. I appreciate you. You know, I

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Speaker 4: love you a and thank you so much. It's a

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Speaker 4: pleasure to meet you, pleasure to talk to you. Can't

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Speaker 4: wait for you to cook.

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Speaker 2: All right?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, sure, we get bad Lee coming on, so we

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Speaker 1: gotta make that.

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Speaker 2: Okay making it.

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Speaker 4: It's done already, It's done, already.

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Speaker 2: I want you in the kitchen with me.

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Speaker 5: Book.

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Speaker 3: It's all good. So y'all heard it. Y'all heard it

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Speaker 3: here first, and on that note, were gone.

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Speaker 1: Well.

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Speaker 3: That concludes another episode of The Gainst the Chronicles podcast.

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Speaker 3: Be sure to download the iHeart app and subscribe to

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Speaker 3: The Gangster Chronicles podcast. But Apple users find a purple

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Speaker 3: micae on the front of your screen, subscribe to the show,

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Speaker 3: leave a comment and rating. Executive producers for The Gangst

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Speaker 3: Chronicles podcasts of Norman Steel Aaron M.

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Speaker 1: C a Tyler.

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Speaker 3: Our visual media director is Brian Whatt, and audio editors

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